The Kings Head Hotel (JD Wetherspoons), Beccles

Official site of The Kings Head Hotel (JD Wetherspoons) - www.jdwetherspoon.com

Official site of The Kings Head Hotel (JD Wetherspoons) - www.jdwetherspoon.com

My old 1992 Suffolk beer guide reveals that this was a Whitbread house and before that part of the Lacons estate. Wetherspoons took it on in 2013 and I suspect it is unrecognisable from the old pub. Having arrived in the dark I wasn't even sure if it was originally a pub. It's also one of their expanding chain of hotels. Like many of the hotels it's a rambling building with various different areas. Overall this is a much more upmarket sort of place than most Hight Street Spoons. I found myself a seat near the food hatch. The bar has two sets of six hand pumps hich had the JDW Trio Of Doom with the GK beers doubled up, one available soon, Caledonian Edinburgh Castle, Purity UBU, Ramsgate Gadd's Number 5, Stonehenge Pigswill, Salopian Darwin's Origin and Adnam's Bitter. The one I wanted had just gone so I had a Devils' Backbone to go with the Speical Offer curry I'd ordered. This one seemed to be a lot better than average JDW.